Sentences with phrase «by intransigence»

I have been particularly dismayed by the intransigence and unwillingness of state agencies to consider new information in light of the mountain of evidence supporting the success of American public education, especially when the lack of oversight and transparency in our privatized charter schools became glaringly evident this past year.

When it comes to the No Child waiver gambit, it is hard to take Duncan's statements seriously, especially after he disavowed statements by his own staff that the administration was considering granting a special waiver to a compact of eight California districts looking to evade No Child's accountability measures (and not be shackled by the intransigence of Golden State officials, who unsuccessfully pursued a waiver on their own terms).

But officials who have attempted to do more with less have often found themselves stymied in one key area by the intransigence of the very agency that Mr. Duncan leads.

Not exact matches

Yet I think that I do not exaggerate when I say that the chief impression received by an observer is precisely the divine impassibility, the intransigence of the divine demand, and the requirement from men of a servile obedience rather than life in «the glorious liberty of the children of God».

The return to ancient faith and practice is increasingly seen as a way forward in churches polarized by worship wars and theological intransigence.

White liberals who might once have joined this observer in being exasperated by such intransigence now took it to be their duty to go to almost any lengths to react «constructively.»

By «bad faith» I mean that Sartrean sense of self - righteousness, self - projection and non-engagement which promotes exclusivism and intransigence.

Arsenal are being sabotaged by Wenger through his intransigence and deluded views on modern day football economics.

Perhaps even more offensive than the intransigence of the organization over the set - in - stone rule that was implemented in 2015 was the MIAA declining to call Nash by her name, instead citing «Lunenberg's female golfer.»

The Association of British Insurers, frustrated by government intransigence have published the location of 200,000 homes at most extreme flood risk, and least likely to get assistance if this government doesn't get a grip.

In the last week or two we've seen some public finger pointing by senior Cabinet Ministers about the EU's intransigence.

One of the reasons for the UK government's intransigence is likely to be the fear of how many other former subjects from around the world who had suffered brutality might still be alive and be encouraged by this case to bring claims.

Sturgeon earlier wrote in an article for the Times that her moves towards a second referendum were prompted by the prime minister's «sheer intransigence», in a further effort to push May into fresh concessions.

He said state lawmakers «should refuse to reward their intransigence» by denying additional funding to the charter sector until they change their ways.

Afterimage: The great Polish director Andrzej Wajda's final film, and one of his best, features a towering performance by Boguslaw Linda as a real - life Polish avant - garde artist suffering for his intransigence under Communism.

Peoples and leaders of the world have derided and expressed dismay on Trump's intransigence in governance by withdrawing from the Paris Accord.

The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act was a monumental achievement in 2001 — and the union's greatest political defeat in the modern era — but in subsequent years it was NCLB that found itself being transformed, and ultimately eviscerated, by powerful political blowback from unions and the intransigence of the districts.

Education futurists have predicted the disintegration of the 19th - century model of American schooling for many years, but the barriers to that transformation have been limited by both the intransigence of the current system and a lack of imagination about what might replace it.

What they absolutely do know is that they're in serious danger of a substantial redirection of cash flow, a plain fact only made more real by their stubborn intransigence.

The tone of the public debate is entirely driven by denialist intransigence.

... which prompt the reader to reflect on his intransigence, and the continued framing of the debate by the climate change establishment...

Ahead of its AGM on May 25, Shell has for the first time published a «below 2 ˚C scenario», yet analysis by Carbon Tracker on Shell's latest climate risk disclosures shows its continued intransigence to be at best disappointing and at worst stonewalling.

This scientific pie fight, characterized by juvenile name - calling, ignoble tactics, and intellectual intransigence on both sides, not only left the public confused and scared.

The Bush approach, ably supported by the Howard government, was to encourage the most intransigent elements in the Chinese government to resist any movement on climate policy, then point to that intransigence as an excuse for US (and Australian) inaction.

Intransigence is legitimised by what «science says...».

But after years of American intransigence on global warming, Mr. Markey said he thought China would be influenced by the Obama administration's commitment to the issue.

When we first launched the Cyberjustice Laboratory project, back in 2010, we submitted the hypothesis that the reason the legal system had not embraced technology had nothing to do with the availability of technological solutions to our problems, nor was this caused by legal intransigence since laws can always be changed (as was the case in Quebec back in 2001 regarding signatures).

One is only limited by one's imagination (or intransigence) as to how to create a model that works better than the traditional model.

In A.A. v. S.N.A., 2007 BCCA 363 (CanLII), a trial judge decided that a child of the marriage, referred to by the letter M, was to remain with the mother (Ms.. A), despite Ms.A's «intransigence and determination.»

Yet it's also a problem that's not being helped by the general intransigence and lack of transparency from the social media companies that control the infrastructure being used to spread disinformation.

«Once again, our children are held hostage and murdered by the GOP and NRA's intransigence,» Mike Bates, a columnist for MLB Daily Dish said on Twitter.